Software

The UAV flies at up to 60,000 feet and can “loiter” over an interesting location for 23 hours beaming live surveillance information to observers via satellite - the bulbous nose houses the steerable dish antenna that remains locked on the satellite to be used, some of which are in polar orbits and, therefore, in constant “motion " relative to Earth-side locations.

Apparently it was recently added to some mainland China “easy mark” list and was being probed with a new, non-human registration attempt every few minutes.

For example, the number sign or pound character ("#") is pronounced “crunch” and the exclamation point ("!

for (;;) ; Cthulhu found in the C programming language!

For an hour, my toes touched bottom no more than for a few fleeting moments and, my ego is relieved to report, I was not alone in the deep end.

The difference is in dealing with the inevitable “Oops!”

Amazon delivered “Drupal for Dummies” - every one of the “Dummies” books I’ve tried have been excellent - and the O’Reilly “Using Drupal” - also a publisher I like very much.

“Analog computers,” he went on, “are faster, more reliable and have some practical uses besides accounting such as cannon trajectory calculations for battleships.